Nubia is gearing up to show off a phone it claims is the world’s first AI agent smartphone. The Chinese brand announced the device on its official Weibo account, confirming it will make its public debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, known as WAIC, in Shanghai. The event runs from July 17 to July 20.
Details are still thin on the ground, but a tipster suggests the phone will be a successor to the nubia M153, a device the company launched in China earlier this year. The M153 came with ByteDance’s Doubao AI assistant built in, ran on a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, and shipped with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The new model is expected to push that AI integration much further.
According to the same tipster, the upcoming phone will include “deep system-level AI integration” and support “autonomous cross-platform operation.” That second phrase is the key one here. It points to an AI that can take actions across apps and services on its own, rather than just answering questions or summarizing text.
That concept, broadly called an AI agent, is something the entire tech industry is chasing right now. Apple, Google, and Samsung have all been moving in this direction, with features that let AI handle multi-step tasks without constant user input. Nubia is essentially claiming it will get there first, at least in a shipping consumer product.
Whether the phone lives up to that claim depends on what “system-level” actually means in practice. There is a big difference between an AI that can autonomously book a restaurant across two apps and one that simply has a dedicated AI button. Nubia has not shared any screen recordings, demos, or spec sheets yet, so the full picture is still missing.
What nubia has confirmed:
- The phone will be shown at WAIC 2025 in Shanghai
- It is positioned as a direct successor to the M153
- It will feature a system-level AI agent, not just an AI assistant
- Full specs and availability details are coming at the event
The WAIC conference is a logical place to make this kind of announcement. It draws major players from the Chinese tech industry and gets significant coverage from both local and international press. Nubia is clearly going for maximum visibility with this launch, and positioning the phone as a world first is a deliberate move to stand out in a crowded market where almost every new Android flagship now ships with some form of AI branding attached to it.
More details, including pricing and whether the phone will reach markets outside China, should surface when the conference opens on July 17.